The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

. UNITED STATES CAVALRY soldiers serving in
dry sections OF the country are hereafter to be
supplied with two canteens each.
SOME COWS that were in a field that she was
crossing at Sag Harbor, L. L., day or two ago,
made movement toward Mrs Rogers, who be-
came so frightened that she dropped dead,
THE Reno Journal says that the practice Of
smoking opium Is becoming almost as preva-
lent among the Pacific coast Indians as among
the Chinese from whom they have learned 1t.
AT DAVENPORT sixteen men have deserted
their wives during the last ten months. In
nearly every instance the abandoned wives are
young, good-looSing, good-natured Industrious
and economical.
RICHMOND, VA, boasts that few cities OF its
size have as many miles of street railway tracks
as are already in use witha her limits, with the
encouraging prospect that it will be doubled the
next two years.
TENNESSEE has an area of 800 square miles
Of coal, which covers twenty-five counties.
During the last six years the output Of coal in
the State has grown from i0l, 900 tons TO ,IOO,-
900, an increase of 400 per cent.
President Willis, of the Michigan College,
says that more than 50 per cent. of the graduates
Of that institution have become farmers. If he
is correctly reported, this is remarkable snow,
ing, not approached by any other similar school
IN this country
NEXT YEAR it will have been 100 years since
Julian Dubuque settled at Dubuque. Next year
the city will probably celebrate in a becoming
manner that centennial occasion. II will also he
the one huudredth anniversary of the first set
uement in Iowa.
In Italy turkeys are always fattened with wal
nuts. Thirty days before the turkey is TO be
killed one walnut is stuffed down his throat;
Each day he is given an additional walnut, and
n "a " 1QU ln V-nI
walnuts. He is then immensely fat.
AN English lock maker claims to have per-
fected door, to be used in public buildings,
that will lessen the chances of accident in times
of panic or real danger. 1t can be- opened from
the outside only by key, but slight pressure
from within causes it to swing open outward.
In Aberdeen, Ark, recently a number of per-
sons were invited to a 'possum supper at
hotel. They went and partook heartily of the
possums was a cat and the banqueters are
hunting for the cook, who hes fled to the woods.
SYLvANus CLEVELAND of Providence, r. l.,
claims that the Presidents wife has been misin
formed on one very important feature of her
husbands geDealogy. He says that the family
to which Grover Cleveland belongs was founded
in America by Moses Cleveland, who settled,
not iii Ohio, out in Woburn, Mass, in 1885.
In the Leipzig Stadt Theatre there is an
enormous cSlern CDaJ OVern1nSS Jne stage,
from which an alarming quantity of water can
be flooded down on the boards at the shortest
warning. The knowledge of this provision has
hitherto been great source of comfort to the
actors, They were not however, prepared for
an impromptu that occurred two weeks ago.
Without moments warning, and in the pres
cnce Of stalls, pit and curtain, nearly the whole
company were soundly drenched. They had TO
make a very hasty retreat from the stage, to
drop the curtain, and to get theig clothes dried
before they could again ''go on" The audience
seemed Immensely amused and no 'demoraliz
ing panic" has to be recorded
CHARLES BRoCKAwAY, the celebrated forger
who was discharged recently from the Sing
Sing penitentiary, where he ha6 served a five
years sentence, advertises that henceforth he is
to lead an honest life and devote his declining
years to detecting the most dangerous class of
crime, the forgery of checks During his long
experience in the forgery business he has used
many kinds of ink, and he has now invented one
which he claims will detect a forgery. He is
now in Boston offering his ink for sale to the
bank officials of that city If success attends
his enterprise he will open an office in Boston
where, before he began BUSINESS he paid his
respects to the inspector of police and got that
official TO Introduce him at the banks and to tell
his previous record.